sudden thoughts came to me when i heard my mum talking to my aunt in dialect over the phone earlier on.


we, the teenagers of today,
how many of us can speak fluent dialect?
of course, besides the swearing part.
and yes, i'm damn sure there are people who swear in hokkien like they're damn great, when they don't even know what they're talking about.

like, what the hell?


let's go back to the time when
we started to learn to read, write and speak.
i, personally, have little recollections.
i can't remember when i started to learn english,
how did i even learn to write my own name?

time passes so quickly,
it's already been fourteen years and a few months,
since the day i was brought to this world.
then, think again, that fourteen years just passed so quickly,
so quickly i can't even remember the details.
great, i can't even remember what i wore yesterday.


OFF TRACK.


learning a language is such a process.
for english, you start by learning the ABCs.
for chinese, we learn hen, shu, pie, na, and han yu pin yin.
& i guess many of us have forgotten the process already.

dialects like teochew, hokkien, hainamnese, haka etc, etc.
how many of us really know how'd we learnt those?
okay, most of us only know bits and pieces.
i can confidently say,
i'll never speak fluent teochew like my parents.
& i doubt the following generations can.


the world's been taken over by
the most commonly spoken, english.
or at least, in my world, & the people around me.
oh and yes, chinese language,
what is said to be increasingly important today.

then again, even in english & chinese,
how many of us really speak perfect english & chinese?


language's something we all use in speech,
for communication.
i guess its really important.

i despise all those losers who swear in some alien language,
and don't even know what the meaning of the words are.
stop trying to act cool. its not.
loser-ness.


well, no matter what language you speak in,
the words still have their meaning.
so, mean what you say.


don't disappoint others,
don't make empty promises,
don't be such an asshole.


(:




yes i realised the pointlessness of this post.
i was just trying to pass time lah. heh.

merry christmas.
its 72 days to christmas.
and christmas is on a monday.


:D